The Romney/Ryan ticket will win the election. The testimonials about Mitt Romney's generous spirit on the last night of the GOP convention made clear, contrary to demagogic Democrat trash ads, that he's just the opposite of a cold and greed-driven monster. And Romney's acceptance speech convincingly portrayed him as a highly effective, down-to-earth leader who knows how to pick high-performance people to achieve big things (Paul Ryan is an inspiring example of this), and who, most critically, understands the extraordinarily potent and positive power of free people and free markets.

In 1980 Americans regarded Jimmy Carter as a failed president. But to win the election Ronald Reagan--who had also been skewered by Democrats--needed to assure voters that they could take a chance on him in the Oval Office. By late October Reagan had done just that, and he won in a landslide. Romney and Ryan are well on their way to doing the same now. Which is why they'll be taking their respective oaths of office on January 20.